Dilapidated single room (health centre)caters to 700 families in Lurgam Tral, lacks basic facilities

Basharat Rashid

Tral, 17 September: A sub-health centre in Lurgam village of Tral in South Kashmir has turned dilapidated, with no intervention of concerned authorities.

A group of aggrieved locals told Arising State that the lone health centre in their village has been running in a ramshackle mini private building for decades causing them enormous hardships.

The locals complained that besides the pathetic condition of the health centre’s building, they have been facing hardships in terms of the shortage of medicines and other equipments in the centre.

Ghulam Qadir Bhat, a resident of Lurgam told Arising State that patients in the village don’t get any kind of health-related facility in the centre , instead, they have to travel to considerable distances to get the treatment.

He further said that a single room of health centre is catering to more than 700 families in the village that too without any infrastructure or other basic facilities.

The residents said that they moved from pillar to post , and sought the intervention of authorities , but the authorities have been ignoring our call till date.

The locals demanded up-gradation of facilities including a new building for the health centre at the earliest.

“We request the administration to look into the matter and redress our genuine demands. People here will heave a sigh of relief  if the facilities to the health centre are provided,” residents added.